Ipse Dixit

In this episode, Carliss N. Chatman , Assistant Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law, and Anthony Michael Kreis , Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, discuss Chatman's essay " If a Fetus Is a Person, It Should Get Child Support, Due Process, and Citizenship " and Kreis's response, " Under Ten Eyes ," both of which are published in the Wash...

In 2017, University of Kentucky College of Law students Barrett Block and Zach Atwell composed a song titled "The Court is Yours," based on Nas, " The World is Yours " (1994), for an assignment in Professor Joshua Douglas's Civil Procedure class. The song was performed and recorded by Elijah. Here are the lyrics: [PR] Whose court is this? [Nas] The court is yours, the court is yours [PR] It's mine...

In 2011, Ben Carter , who is currently Senior Litigation and Advocacy Counsel at the Kentucky Equal Justice Center, wrote an imaginary commencement address. It was the kind of commencement address that graduating law students will never hear, but the kind of commencement address they need to hear. You can read the text of the original address here . In light of the Coronavirus pandemic, he recorde...

In this episode, Nicholas Bagley , Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and Julian Davis Mortenson , Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, discuss their article " Delegation at the Founding ," which will be published in the Columbia Law Review. They begin by explaining what "delegation" is, in the constitutional context, and the history of the concept of...

In this episode, Nora Slonimsky , Gardiner Assistant Professor of History at Iona College, discusses her draft article "Oil, Elephant Bones, and an Act of Parliament: Mapping America's Earliest Copyright Claim." Slonimsky begins by explaining how copyright worked in 18th century England and colonial America. She describes the effort of one American mapmaker to claim a copyright in a popular map. A...

In this episode, Heidi K. Brown , Director of Legal Writing and Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, discusses her book " The Introverted Lawyer: A Seven-Step Journey Toward Authentically Empowered Advocacy ," which is published by the American Bar Association. She begins by explaining how introverts and extroverts are different, and how legal education and practice favor extroverts...

In this episode, Cameron Cantrell, a law student at the University of Washington School of Law, discusses potentially invasive warrants for computer searches (ex-ante versus ex-post warrant restrictions) and the police technologies widely available for decrypting mobile devices, like full device imaging for smartphones. Cameron is passionate about this topic and quite knowledgeable, bringing a stu...

In this episode, Caroline Cecot , Assistant Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, discusses her article " Transparency in Agency Cost-Benefit Analysis ," which she co-authored with Robert W. Hahn, and which will be published in the Administrative Law Review. Cecot begins by explaining what cost-benefit analysis is and how agencies use it to inform decisionmaking...

In this episode, Maybell Romero , Assistant Professor of Law at the Northern Illinois University College of Law, and Brian L. Frye , Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law, discuss their new essay " The Right to Unmarry: A Proposal ." They begin by explaining how the right to unmarry is unduly burdened and how, after Obergefell , restrictions on divo...

In this episode, J. Remy Green, a partner at  Cohen & Green PLLC , discusses their article " All Your Works Are Belong to Us: New Frontiers for the Derivative Work Right in Video Games ," which is published in the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology. Green begins by explaining how copyright doctrine conceptualizes videogames as audiovisual works. But they observe that videogame p...

In this episode, Hafsa Mansoor, Seton Hall Law 3L, Center for Social Justice scholar, and student attorney at Seton Hall Immigrants' Rights and International Human Rights Clinic, discusses her paper, " Guilty Until Proven Guilty: Effective Bail Reform As A Human Rights Imperative ," forthcoming in the Elon Law Journal in 2021. Ms. Mansoor discusses tragic stories that have arisen due to the use an...

In this episode, J. Remy Green, a partner at Cohen & Green PLLC , discusses their article “ Digitizing Brandenburg: Common Law Drift Toward a Causal Theory of Imminence ,” which is published in the Syracuse Law Review. Green begins by discussing imminence as it has been applied since the pivotal U.S. Supreme Court case of Brandenburg v. Ohio, and how imminence has been conceptualized in a spat...

In this episode,  Jennifer Brinkley , assistant professor at the University of West Florida, discusses her paper The Failure of Amanda's Law in Kentucky: Creating Best Practices for Legislatures Passing Domestic Violence Statutes , published 2019 in the Quinnipiac Law Review . Brinkley tells the shocking story leading to drafting and passage of Amanda's Law in Kentucky, while reviewing some o...

In this episode, John P. Mayer , the executive director of CALI, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, discusses technology and legal education. He describes the history of CALI and some of its primary projects. He explains how CALI works to help law schools provide more effective legal education. And he describes how CALI is responding to the Covid-19 crisis. Among other things, he...

In this episode, Camilla Hrdy , Associate Professor of Law at the University of Akron School of Law, and Mark A. Lemley , William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology, discuss their article " Abandoning Trade Secrets ," which will be published in the Stanford Law Review. They begin by explaining what trade secrets are...

In this episode, William Nicholson Price II , Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School , and Jonathan I. Tietz, a recent graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, discuss their article " Acknowledgements as a Window into Legal Academia ," which will be published in the Washington University Law Review. Price and Tietz explain how publication works in legal scholarship, an...

In this episode, Gregory H. Shill , Associate Professor of Law at the University of Iowa discusses his essay, " Congressional Securities Trading ." Shill begins by discussing how securities regulation manages trading by corporate insiders. His essay examines how to bring those regulatory structures over to manage trading by members of Congress. He is on Twitter at @greg_shill . This...

In this episode, Rachel E. Lopez , Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Andy and Gwen Stern Community Lawyering Clinic at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, discusses her article " The Law of Gravity ," which will be published in the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. Lopez begins by describing the role of the concept of "gravity" in international law. She observes that...

In this episode, Amanda Levendowski , Associate Professor of Law and founding Director of the Intellectual Property and Information Policy (iPIP) Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center, and Laura Ahmed, a 3L at Georgetown University Law Center, discuss using Wikipedia editing as a pedagogical tool in legal education, among other things. They describe the process of Wikipedia editing and how it...

In this episode, Darya Balybina, a 3L at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, discusses her career in privacy law. In particular, she reflects on privacy issues presented by the Zoom platform, in relation to its near-universal adoption by law schools and other educational institutions. She also analyzes the class action law suit recently filed against Zoom, alleging priva...

In this episode, Rebecca Giblin , Associate Professor of Law at Melbourne Law School and Director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, discusses her article " Are Contracts Enough? An Empirical Study of Author Rights in Australian Publishing Agreements ," which she co-authored with Joshua Yuvaraj and will be published in the Melbourne University Law Review. Giblin begins b...

In this episode, Luke Morgan discusses his article " The Broken Branch: Capitalism, the Constitution, and the Press ," forthcoming in the Penn State Law Review. Morgan begins by discussing the economic decline of journalism, and why applying market logic to the public good of journalism has precipitated its decline. He continues by explaining why journalism cannot exist as a market product, arguin...

In this episode, Caroline Mala Corbin , Professor of Law & Dean's Distinguished Scholar at the University of Miami School of Law, discusses her article " Trump's Lies: The Unconstitutionality of Government Propaganda ," which will be published in the Ohio State Law Journal. Corbin argues that the First Amendment should limit government speech, specifically propagandistic government speech. She...

In this episode, Lisa A. Tucker , Associate Professor at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, discusses her article " From Contract Rights to Contact Rights: Rethinking the Paradigm for Post-Adoption Contact Agreements ," which will be published in the Boston University Law Review. Tucker begins by briefly describing the history of adoption in the United States, and how it has changed...

In this episode, Rohan Grey , incoming Assistant Professor of Law at Willamette University College of Law, discusses his article, " Administering Money: Coinage, Debt Crises, and the Future of Fiscal Policy ," as well as his recent work on fiscal policy. Grey begins by describing the conventional understanding of fiscal policy and the relationship between Congress, Treasury, and the Federal Reserv...